An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.
The Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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A House resolution to form the Joint Committee of Fifteen is received by the Senate
Mr. President, I am directed by the House of Representatives to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House has assembled, that it has elected Schuyler Colfax, one of the Representatives from Indiana, Speaker, and is now ready to proceed to business.
I am also directed to inform the Senate that the House of Representatives has passed a resolution for the appointment of the a committee on its part, to join such committee as may be appointed by the Senate, to wait upon the President of the United States and inform him that a quorum of each House has assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make; and it has appointed Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne of Illinois, Mr. James Brooks of New York, and Mr. William D. Kelley of Pennsylvania, the committee on its part.